NGB: This past Monday, my Xbox LIVE gold subscription expired. Normally, I’d have jumped on it and made sure I’d either had a rolling subscription or a cheap code purchased online, but this time, I couldn’t bring myself to fork out the cash to renew for another year. My four-year tenure with Microsoft’s “premium” service has come to an end. I can’t foresee a time in the coming months when Microsoft can woo me back either, because based on recent events, it seems they’re waging some kind of war on their own consumers.
"Digital Extremes are today very happy and proud to announce that Warframe’s next highlightly anticipated Prime form launches soon with Protea Prime Access arriving on all platforms on May 1st, 2024." - Digital Extremes.
GB: "After its disastrous launch all those years ago, many players are rediscovering Fallout 76 and how much it's improved."
Players had high expectations for Destiny’s latest content drop, Destiny 2: Into the Light. Not only did it have to live up to other content added due to a delay, it needed to give players faith the conclusion of the Light and Dark Saga will be worthwhile. - IS
Onslaught is certainly a lot of fun. Plus it's nice having a wide array of extremely useful weapons to grind for.
Microsoft's actions have spelled out exactly what they think of the consumer.
- Shipping their console knowing about its failures and subsequent RROD occurances, denying the genuine complaints, until threats of going to court then, and only then, made them change their tune.
- Charging $60 a year for P2P connectivity in half of every game that the consumer has most likely already shelled out $60 for. So it's paying MS to use your own ISP bandwidth with games you've already bought.
- Charging $60 a year for access to applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Netflix etc. that are all available for FREE across every single other platform and device.
The list indeed goes on. MS reckons their consumers are stupid and can take them for a ride, and MS supporters/ consumers have proven that which people claim, is not a myth.
I don't feel battled , I feel options are being provide & its up to me to use or not use . never been forced to do anything I did not want. besides been a consumer for almost 12 years why go or buy anything else.
Yawn
@Belking
If they do start to charge for online play which I dont think they will, it's all thanx to ppl like yourself for supporting microsoft and letting them con u for things that are free on every other platform.
@DigitalRaptor
I gotta agree with you & because of microsoft's fanbase who are willing to pay for xbl, microsoft is paving the way for other companies to follow in their footsteps. Other companies are like hey if their fanbase are stupid enough to pay for something that is free on every other system why dont we do the same.
Shinra Tensei
I've never understood why or how people feel they have the right to tell others how to spend their own money.... If you don't like XBL there are alternatives, but plenty of people enjoy the service very much.